Many on Wall Street are weathering the autumn technology rout by buying the shares of firms with slower, steadier earnings growth, the latest sign that investors largely remain sanguine about U.S. stocks despite recent reversals. Trading has turned rocky since the SP 500 finished the third quarter with its biggest gain since 2013...

Given the boards subpar oversight of critical issues such as MA and succession planning, shareholders may wonder whether the incumbent board is capable of steering Campbell back on track in a timely manner, says ISS in the ruling. Campbell returned about 19% to shareholders over the last two years, while the SP 500 has nearly tripled. At one point Loeb proposed replacing all 12 board members, but he backed off ...

MoviePass' owner, Helios Matheson Analytics (HMNY), reported a loss of $130 million for the three months ending September 30, according to its third-quarter filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
It also noted that MoviePass has suffered a "significant decline" in subscriptions due to unpopular changes.
Two board members resigned in October the day after HMNY announced that it was planning to branch off MoviePass into its own publicly traded ...

Six U.S. senators on Wednesday introduced a bill that would require the U.S. securities watchdog to directly regulate firms such as Glass, Lewis Co and Institutional Shareholder Services, which advise investors on how to vote in corporate elections...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. Meridian Compensation Partners, a leading executive compensation and corporate governance consulting firm, has completed a comprehensive Study on executive severance arrangements (not related to a change in control) maintained by a cross-section of 160 SP 500 companies (Study Group). Key Findings of the Study The following key findings are based on disclosures made by Study Group companies in their respective 2018 proxies covering fiscal year 2017 severance ...

MoviePass parent company, Helios Matheson Analytics (HMNY), announced Tuesday that it had canceled a special shareholders meeting regarding a vote on a proposed 1-for-500 reverse stock split.
The meeting was postponed twice and then canceled because the company said it"does not expect to have the requisite stockholder votes to approve the proposed reverse stock split," according to an SEC filing...